Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

Explore / Interestingness: Highest position #457, December 23, 2008

Seen in a garden, Vienna, Austria, August 2008

La piéride et la fleur de La Valériane

Taken hand held in the wild on a windy day day.

Two images stacked using Zerene. I have no idea what this insect is, but it was very patient with me.

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Red ant feeding on a syrup drop I'd put on a potentilla flower

Plant hopper nymph

Wish i had a macro lens.. this is heavily cropped & sometimes a macro lens would come in very handy indeed.

Love the way the dragonfly seems to be actually smiling at his lunchtime menu.

September 2013 - the last of a series of a female ruby-throated hummingbird checking out a monarch butterfly.

sweet dragon

I was looking for butterflies in a scrubby limestone area near Riberac in France and noticed these incredible insects with shimmering yellow wings whizzing about. Close-up they are just amazing, and surprising from all angles.

Libellula depressa

Vulcain (Vanessa atalanta),El Puerto de Santa Maria,Espagne

insect and flower

Miden 3 mm

spider

In botanical garden of Munich.

Male miner bee. Focus stacked using zerene

This Four-spotted Skimmer is feeding on another insect, which is the whitish-looking bit in its mandibles. I watched the meal disappear!

I'm not 100% sure of my I.D., so any correction would be appreciated

Chapman Mtn NP

another variety of hoverfly from lakenheath

30 April 2010

View On Black

Monarch butterfly

Malibu Lagoon

This little one showed up when taking pics of the mini rose with the magnifying lens. He wasn't very big but the lens filter enlarged it quite a bit.

White Feet seen along the Palmarsh Canal.

Not quite sure if the right identification.

Have spotted these very tiny springtails again this year. They are very small and active, tricky to get a good shot!

I think it's the small white, but please correct me if I've got it wrong!

Have not made an attempt to classify this species. It is a rather large insect, body size approx 2 cm. Insect-on-glass-111014(1)

Some flies from the archives. these two are from the Elan valley. HFDF!